Catalin Cimpanu reports: The US branch of telecommunications giant T-Mobile disclosed a security breach today that impacted a small number of customers of its prepaid service. The company said its cybersecurity team “discovered and shut down malicious, unauthorized access to some information related to your T-Mobile prepaid wireless account.” Exposed data included details such as…
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Lithuanian national, extradited from Ukraine, charged with unauthorized computer intrusion, other crimes
A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Lithuanian national Vytautas Parfionovas with computer intrusion, securities fraud, money laundering, bank fraud and wire fraud, among other offenses. The charged crimes stem from a variety of criminal conduct between 2011 and 2018 in which Parfionovas gained access to U.S.-based computers, including email…
A Notorious Iranian Hacking Crew Is Targeting Industrial Control Systems
Andy Greenberg reports: Iranian hackers have carried out some of the most disruptive acts of digital sabotage of the last decade, wiping entire computer networks in waves of cyberattacks across the Middle East and occasionally even the US. But now one of Iran’s most active hacker groups appears to have shifted focus. Rather than just standard…
Akron man sentenced to six years in prison for launching denial of service attacks that shut down web sites for the city of Akron and the Akron Police Department
From the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio, an update on a previously disclosed prosecution: An Akron man was sentenced to six years in prison for launching denial of service attacks that shut down web sites for the city of Akron and the Akron Police Department. James Robinson, 33, previously pleaded guilty…
Arron Banks’s private Twitter messages leaked by hacker
Jim Waterson reports: Arron Banks’s Twitter account has been hacked and the entire private message history of the Leave.EU founder uploaded to the internet, in what appears to be a targeted attack that has been reported to the police. The founder of the pro-Brexit campaign group, who has been the subject of questions about the source of…
Court approves extradition of young hacker to US
Jonathan Shkurko reports: Joshua Epiphaniou will be the first Cypriot to be extradited to the United States after a Nicosia court ruled he should stand trial there, his lawyer Michael Chambers said. He faces 20 years in prison in two US states – Georgia and Arizona – where he faces several charges including wire and…